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Since I do a lot of technical as well as novel writing, I need both curly and straight quotes in word. Thanks to Practical Typography, I found this extremely easy way to add “straight quotes” to text when needed. How to override smart quotes WORD Type the foot or inch mark, which will come […]

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What is the biggest mistake self-publishing authors make when preparing their book for ebook conversion? Improper word formatting of Paragraph Indents. Say No to Tabs and the Spacebar Old school taught us to use the tab key to make paragraph indents. This can be a difficult habit to break—but break it you must. NEVER use […]

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From now until the end of the year (Dec 10-31, 2013), Save 10% off all our books, kits and templates. PLUS, you get FREE LIFETIME updates. So when we update a product, you get it free — no questions, no additional fees. Big News for Self-Publishing in 2014 Like every business we have our marketing […]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Suzanne Fyhrie Parrott, First Steps Publishing Phone: (541) 961-7641 E-Mail: support@firststepspublishing.com Monday, September 22, 2013 Author explores and answers the age-old question, What is Man? CORONA, Calif. — Written from a biblical perspective, first time author, Thomas Sedaker has written a refreshingly new approach to a difficult concept and put […]

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Gravatar.com What are they? Globally Recognized Avatar Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site? What this means for the […]

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Yippie! Your ebook is published. Now, you need to set up your Author Central Account. When you received notification from Amazon on your publishing success, they included several links to where you can set up an Author Page. Below is how you can set up the page for Amazon.com (US), and then you can simply […]

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Excerpt from eBook Formatting & Publishing Guide 4.0 Many of you are picking up this book after you have your manuscript written and ready to publish. So you may have a little more work than others starting from scratch. Before I get into how to clean up your manuscript, I want to share how to […]

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Ready-to-go Self-Publishing Design Book and eBook Templates Not only have we made the process of formatting your ebook easier, we’ve included an entire package to help you create your eBook, print Book, and Book Cover – all pre-designed and ready-to-go. Each Design Package includes: Pre-styled and formatted Word Template (.dot) (or Open Office file) Pre-styled […]

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table of contents). The conversion to HTML converted all the paragraph TAB indents to 10 “spaces”, which needed to removed. I used the “Find/Replace” feature to remove all the extra spaces and used my CSS to create the proper paragraph indent. Completion Project was formatted for both Amazon Kindle and Epub formats and Validated using […]

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I can hear the suppressed snickers and giggles. There is just something about farting that puts a smile on our face. It’s a “magical tune” from a “magical fruit.” Rodney sat down with me and we discussed how his adventure began from a simple dinnertime story to a series of farting books so popular, the […]

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Amazon has an easy and ‘short’ way to promote your Amazon products. And this isn’t new. Amazon quietly created its own URL shortener for all its products at least three years ago (2009). This move allows Amazon to take better advantage of the popular microblogging service Twitter as well as mobile texting. How it Works […]

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Bestseller in West African History This non-fiction narrative recounts one of the worst maritime disasters in history, the sinking of Le Joola – which tore at the soul of a country. Patrick Wiley’s interviews with survivors and extensive in-country research revealed the shameful loss of life and incredible accounts of survival that form the heart […]

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How to link to a Youtube video or embed the actual video on your WordPress / Blog site. OPTION ONE - CREATING A LINK TO THE YOUTUBE VIDEO Go to the Youtube video you want to embed Choose “Share” Copy the http://…. Link in the field Go to your post where you want the video […]